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Governor Ron DeSantis boasts that under his leadership, Florida assumed “biomedical safety status” during the Covid-19 pandemic in a new memoir.
The governor dives right into a defense of his coronavirus policies in the introduction after former President Trump used his first line of offense to try to brand DeSantis as “shutting down Ron.”
“Power-hungry elites attempted to use the coronavirus to impose an oppressive biomedical security state on America, but Florida remained an impenetrable obstacle to such designs,” DeSantis writes in an excerpt obtained by DailyMail.com.
“The Courage to Be Free,” which opens Tuesday, casts Florida as the last bastion against globalist elites who have penetrated the media, education, politics and business worlds.
Governor Ron DeSantis boasts that Florida, under his leadership, assumed “biomedical safety status” during the Covid-19 pandemic in a new memo
The book, believed to be a precursor to DeSantis’ run for president, goes on sale Tuesday.
DeSantis writes that he acknowledged the “blatant partisanship” and “intellectual bankruptcy” of public health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci and encouraged readers to never “trust the experts.”
“The performance of these so-called experts (they were wrong about the need for lockdowns, the efficacy of cloth masks, school closures, the existence of natural immunity, and the accuracy of epidemiological “models”) was so terrible that no person in your right mind you should ‘trust the experts’ never again.’
The governor references a 1961 speech in which President Dwight Eisenhower warned that public policy should not be ‘captive’ by the ‘scientific-technological elite’: ‘A government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. ‘ Eisenhower warned at the time.
DeSantis also alludes to the machinations of DC politics. ‘The elites do not rely on winning elections to accumulate enough political power to implement desired policies; they rely on a vast administrative state through which they can implement their preferred policies regardless of the outcome of the elections.’
‘Convinced that society is best governed by “experts” working in unaccountable government agencies, they promote major changes in American society, on issues ranging from energy to education, through bureaucratic decrees, not by popular consent.’
The governor also takes aim at private industry, a new battlefront for conservatism that has long defended free markets above all else.
“Wall Street banks can deny financial services to industries that clash with the vision of the anointed, such as firearms manufacturers or contractors that provide services for immigration enforcement,” DeSantis wrote. “This collusion represents a way for the ruling class to achieve through the economy what it could never achieve through the ballot box.”
He promotes Florida’s moves to ban ESG investments in state and local pensions, and takes on Big Tech and the media.
DeSantis and his team have been bartering with reporters over their decision to ban critical race theory and queer theory from AP Black Studies in recent weeks. The College Board, in turn, removed the course from many of the topics that had drawn the ire of DeSantis and conservatives, including removing from the reading list many black writers focused on critical race theory, the experience queer and black feminism.
The book is riddled with populist undertones, including a section criticizing “elites” for involving the US of Wall Street banks.
Trump endorsed DeSantis’ first run for governor in 2018, but the relationship between the pair has soured since then.
DeSantis narrowly won the gubernatorial race in 2018 after Trump’s endorsement. In 2022 he sailed for re-election by almost 20 points.
DeSantis narrowly won the gubernatorial race in 2018 after receiving Trump’s endorsement. In 2022 he sailed for re-election by nearly 20 points.
The Florida governor has raised his national profile ahead of the book’s release, appearing at police events in Philadelphia, New York and Chicago last week.
Sources close to DeSantis have said the governor would not launch a presidential campaign before the state legislature ends in May.
Over the weekend, a cadre of wealthy donors gathered in Palm Beach, Florida, for a fundraiser for the 44-year-old Florida governor. The three-day retreat was billed as a celebration of the ‘Florida project’ and included a number of former Trump allies and donors.
A new WPA-Intelligence poll of 1,000 Republicans ranks DeSantis as the favorite with 40 percent and Trump with 31 percent in a race of nine candidates and potential candidates.
So far, Trump and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley would be DeSantis’ only brand competition in the race. Sen. Tim Scott, RS.C., and former Vice President Mike Pence traveled to the first Republican caucus in the state of Iowa over the past two weeks, indicating they are also considering running.